GREETINGSAlthough I was born in Hong Kong, I actually consider myself more of a New Yorker, having immigrated here at the age of 8. I settled in Brooklyn, and stayed in the city for high school and college. In 2000, I moved to Boston to pursue a combined MD-PhD degree at Harvard, and in 2006, completed my graduate thesis in Neuroscience studying nervous system regeneration. During this time, I also met the love of my life, Melody. After internship and residency, I ended my 12-year stay in Boston for fellowship in vitreoretinal surgery at Duke in North Carolina. In 2014, I joined my wife in California, where I now split my time between science and clinical practice. With the little spare time I have, I enjoy cooking, movies, music, DJ'ing, tennis, billiards, and video games. Having majored in biochemistry and psychology back in college, I was always intrigued by the human mind, which provided the derivation of my current screen name, 'Xephalon', from the latin term for the head, 'cephalicus'.

ABOUT THE SITEI am constantly immersed in scientific and clinical journals and I sometimes worry that I'll forget how to write like a normal person. That is why I started this blog in 2002 as a way for me to write regularly, about food, work, fun, and other things outside of work that are important to me. It also serves as a journal so every once in a while, I can go back and see what I've been doing with my life. The website was designed as a replacement for its more flashy and elaborate predecessors from college. With my busier lifestyle now, I settled on a simpler design that will be easy to update and which I can work on the code from scratch (i.e. Windows notepad). Hopefully, I will find the time to maintain the photos and blog entries regularly, so it will be easy to keep people up to date with my life. I hope you enjoy your visit and drop me a line if you have any comments!